Burung Nusantara Activity Report

2012-2013

REPORT

Training of Burung Nusantara

Supported By

OBC-WILDWINGS AWARD

Cooperation with

NYCTICORAX NYCTICORAX UNIVERSITAS NEGERI JAKARTA

BIOPALAS UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA

BSC KECIAL UNIVERSITAS MATARAM

STIMIK AMIKOM PURWOKERTO BIODIVERSITY SOCIETY

MAHASISWA INFORMATIKA PEDULI LINGKUNGAN

Introduction

The hobby of birdwatching is growing in Indonesia, with new clubs and new

members appearing all the time. Many of these birdwatchers are active but few know

how to effectively record and share the information they collect. Information on new

distributional records, migration, conservation status, etc is simply being lost.

Currently the commonest way to share information is through online social media

like facebook, but this is often restricted to members of a specific club or group.

There is no tradition of publishing data and findings fully and openly; not because

people are unwilling, but because they do not know how and where to publish their

observations. Because people do not publish data often, they also do not often

consider how to record data in the field in the most useful way. We plan to offer a

training course in how to record and publish information collected while

birdwatching. This will make full use of the online and social media that is currently

in use.

Project objectives

1. Increase the capacity building for the birdwatchers in their birding club

2. To promote BurungNusantara as one of the media and communities for

birdwatcher, birding club, and NGo.

3. Support the Indonesian government to take action with qualified database from

birdingclub

Activities

Training events had been done at 4 locations: Jakarta, Medan, Lombok and

Purwokerto. Themes for those training events are: “Bird Research Methods” in

Jakarta; “Training on How to Write News and Articles about Birds” in Medan;

“Water Bird Monitoring” in Lombok and “Proposal Writing Technique Training” in

Purwokerto.

Each events began with an introduction about Burung Nusantara, then followed by

lecturing, training and finally a presentation.

Results

1. Jakarta

The first activity already done in Universitas Negeri Jakarta (UNJ) with theme

“Research Methods for Birdwatcher” and as a trainer is Nurul Winarni, PhD on

September, 6, 2012.

Followed a presentation by Dwi Adhiasto from Wildlife Crime Unit/WCS-IP about

Monitoring Raptor Trade in Indonesia. Presentation by Nurul Winarni about

Research Methods for Birdwatcher and open discussion between participants and

the trainer. The participants are the student that have been taken research

methodology in their campus.

After the break, the participants practice the methods. The participants divided into

4 groups. The trainer gave the case study about the problems of the population and

diversity from the species of birds. The participants should be discussed what the

problems, the species, hypotheses and what the method should be taken.

After finished, one of the participants from the groups should be presentation and be

judged by the trainer from the accuracy of methods, rationale, hypotheses, detail and

how to presentation.

49 participants from 7 institutions (birding club and campus) joined the event.

Because of the participants already taken the methodolgy in their campus, they

learnt fast. Some questions about how choose the method, mist netting method

asked by the participants. One of the comments from students from UNJ named

Resti Rahma Dianti said: "Practiced when case studies is very useful. Mrs. Nurul

have a good idea about it. Now I understand how to implement the method”. There

was also a wildlife photographer exhibition in the same time. The pictures of

Indonesian Seabird survey also fill out the event by showing the work of the study for

1 year.

Recommendations from the trainer: "It's good trainer, but the other times this

training should be combined with an exercise in the field, so the participants

understand between theory and practice. Time is also not too short so that the

method can be delivered with more depth”.

2. Medan

Biopalas, a flora and fauna survey community from North Sumatra University, held a

traning on how to write about birds. This event was held from Saturday, 1st of

December until Sunday, 2nd December 2012.

Other event was a capacity building for bird watcher clubs in Indonesia, with 41

participants coming from college students and environmental activists. This event

divided into two sessions. First session was a seminar about techniques on how to

write news and articles. The speakers were coming from Independent Journalist

Alliance (AJI-Aliansi Jurnalis Independent) of Medan City, Soetana Monang and

Nirwansyah Putra. Second session was held on the last day of event. All participants

were asked to observed bird habitat at the beach in Deli Serdang Regency.

According to Soetana, a trainer for this event, participants have the potential to write

because they directly observed birds on the field and also scientifically informed

about the character and habitat of those birds.The potential is high although they

were somewhat confused to write it in a popular sentence because they are used to

write in scientific ways. “They just need to have the will to write and keep practicing”

said Soetana. These articles then can be published through social network sites such

as facebook.

3. Lombok

Water Birds Observation Training was held on March 2nd-3rd 2013. This activity was

organized by bird watcher group called BSC Kecial and Mataram University. Training

activity was located at Mataram University while for field activity located at

Sekotong, Kelapa Village, Labuan Region Village, Lembar district, Lombok Barat

Regency-Nusa Tenggara Barat.

It was two days activity. The first day was a lecture which talked about water and

beach birds with speakers Ferry Hasudungan and Iwan Londo. On second day,

participants was brought to a mangrove location and divided into 3 groups, each

groups had one accompanion, they are: Noni, Ferry and Londo. About 30 people

joined this event, most of them (22 people) were students from Mataram University

while the others, 7 came from Udayana University (Veterinarian Faculty) and one

person from MTs.

Focus of this training are observing and identifying birds also collecting birds data

which were obtained from 23 bird watchers coming from Bali and Mataram. In this

event, participants were persuaded to be sensitive with environment by recording

any treath, for example: existence of hunters.

Trainers to accompanied, Ferry Hasudungan and Iwan Febrianto reminded on how

important it is to be honest in identifying birds so that the result of observation is

accurate. Beside that, participant also need to know what are the protection status of

the birds they were observed. With that information, bird watchers can ask local

government to defend the protection of Sekotong area which at this moment owned

by government but manage by private institution.

During training, participants had identified 22 species of birds, 7 among them are

protected by Laws No. 7 year 1999 and 3 species of birds included in appendix II

CITES. Those protected species are Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), Oriental Honey-

buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus), Black Eagle (Ictinaetus malayensis), Whimbrel

(Numenius phaeopus), Small Blue Kingfisher (Alcedo coerulescens), and Australian

Honeyeater (Lichmera indistinct). One of them is an endemic species of Sulawesi,

Sula, Mollucas, Sumbawa and Flores Islands White-shouldered Triller (Lalage

sueurii).

I Wayan Suana, an Animal Ecology Lecturer from University Mataram gave his

appreciation that Kecial Observation group could have the advantage to be realated

with people outside of University Mataram. “This location is one of many location

used for bird watching, lecture laboratory and research location for departments of

Math and Natural Science of University Mataram. We will keep promoting bird

watching and help government in managing this location.” He adds.

News:

http://www.tribunnews.com/2013/03/07/lindungi-lingkungan-lewat-pengamatan-

burung

4. Purwokerto

“Writing proposal training” was held on 23rd June 2013 at STIMIK MIKOM

PURWOKERTO together with Biodiversity Society and MIPL. This one day event

consisted of lecture and proposal making training. There were 25 participants of

bird wacthers groups which came from Purwokerto such as Melung villagers,

Biodiversity Society and MIPL; from Yogyakarta was PPBJ and from Surabaya was

Anak Burung. While the trainer coming from Bogor, Mr. Agustinus Wijayanto.

The materials of lecture were about the meaning of proposal and explanation on how

to make logical framework. Participants then divided into a group of 3 people to

practice making logical framework and then at the end, making proposal. These

groups were assigned to make logical framework about birds species in each

locations of the group. Those logical framework then had to be made as a proposal.

According to Agustinus Wijayanto, “In writing proposal is to never give up. If it

failed, then we just have to make a new one by learning from past mistakes.”

Pictures :

1. Jakarta

Dwi Adhiasto from Wildlife Crime Unit gave the presentation

about the bird trade in Jakarta

Nurul Winarni , the trainer, gave the research method to the participants

The participants practiced the researched method in the group

Every group presentation about their result in the group

2. Medan

Noni explained about Burung Nusantara activities in Indonesia

Soetana Monang, the trainer, gave the presentation how to write the news and the article

Briefing with the participants before they written the article in the field

The participants written the article after birding in Deli Serdang

3. Lombok

The participant in “shorebirds training” in Lombok

The participants learnt to see, sketched, and identified the shorebirds

Ferry Hasudungan one of the trainer gave the “trick” how to identified

the shorebirds in the field

4. Purwokerto

Iwan Londo shared the information about Burung Nusantara

Agustinus Wijayanto gave the information how to write the proposal

The participants made the log frameworks and shared to the others participants